Indian operators are starting to tend to LTE

(Reporter Cao Liang) 2011, LTE development stepped into a new track. In the domestic "LTE" Pilot officially launched, LTE internationalization of the road has also made new progress.　　Especially in the Indian market, more and more operators are beginning to LTE. For LTE, internationalization is the inevitable road to its development, and in the past few years, the World Expo and the Guangzhou Asian Games to promote, LTE has received many international operators of all ages.　　From the existing public data, China Mobile has signed a LTE cooperation agreement with 9 operators to promote the global or imminent completion of 26 LTE test network, and according to market forecasts, in 2011 more than 10 countries and regions began to LTE commercial deployment.　　From the current global market development, the Indian market may be one of the fastest growing and most desirable markets in all countries and regions that are deploying or are about to start LTE. 4G to solve India's sluggish broadband development in recent years, India's mobile communications market has developed rapidly, according to India's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRAI) released by the latest data, as of the end of March this year, India's mobile phone users have reached 850 million households.　　But compared with the development of mobile communications, India's broadband market development is too slow. In the overall environment of global broadband growth, the Indian market is also starting to develop broadband market. However, because of the high cost of the construction of broadband infrastructure, it is difficult for India, which has lagged behind the overall broadband development, to deploy the fixed network broadband. First, fixed network broadband infrastructure cost is high, deployment difficult.　　Second, from the deployment to the cost-recovery cycle is too long, this is not sufficient for the funds of the Indian operators, especially in the "money" is not clear, not too risky. Consider the above situation, by deploying 4G mobile broadband network to popularize India's broadband market, become a new choice for operators.　　In June 2010, India's 2.3GHz broadband Wireless access (BWA) Spectrum license was issued, operators officially embarked on the 4G market. Compared with fixed network broadband, 4G Mobile communication has a flexible network, low-cost, high penetration rate of many advantages, so that broadband development easier, even in remote areas, through the 4G mobile communication network can also be covered.　　The new generation mobile communication network constructed with 2.3GHz spectrum will solve the problem of insufficient bandwidth in India's communication market.　　More importantly, this is in line with the current trend of international communications market, but also allows India to keep pace with the international. LTE from India to the world in the Indian market, TDD LTE and FDD LTE had a certain controversy, but for now, the TDD LTE has significantly more recognition than FDD LTE. India's reliance Industry, Aircel and Qualcomm have all tended to LTE.　　LTE is now in the Indian market. In fact, early in the Indian BWA licence issuance, the industry has analyzed the view that, consider the spectrumWith price factors, Indian operators choose to take the LTE route will become possible. In the spectrum, the 2.3GHz broadband Wireless access (BWA) spectrum is LTE global frequency, in this band, LTE will be more advantages, and the issuance of this license, also for LTE access to the Indian market.　　In addition, the TDD LTE spectrum is less expensive than the FDD spectrum, and TDD LTE is more attractive to operators with limited funds.　　It is understood that in the Indian 2.3GHz BWA license Auction process, Aircel obtained 8 geographical spectrum, Qualcomm obtains 4 area spectrum, and the reliance industry through the acquisition Infotel Broadband, has obtained the spectrum of all 22 Telecom service regions in India. At present, three companies have made a clear statement to support LTE. Reliance Industry has pledged to adopt LTE technology and has announced plans to invest $1.5 billion in 15,000 LTE base stations within 3 years. This January, the reliance industry selected its LTE network construction partners. Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent and Huawei are all taking part in the testing of their LTE equipment.　　At the same time, another operator, Aircel, is also conducting network testing with device manufacturers, and has successfully conducted LTE demonstrations with NSN in India. Qualcomm, while not proposing a specific LTE network construction plan, and intends to sell the newly established LTE joint venture, but the company has made it clear that the company in India to buy broadband spectrum is to ensure the adoption of LTE technology, the company does not plan to operate the network, Nor is it intended to compete with other partners.　　The company is currently negotiating with Indian operators on issues such as the commercialization of LTE TDD and the Qualcomm BWA Spectrum license. Regardless of whether the Qualcomm LTE joint venture has been sold smoothly, we have seen LTE in the Indian market has started perhaps in the next year. This is a milestone for the LTE industry. The success of the Indian market will help LTE better move to the international market.